MOX Fuel Shipment Arrival Protest Genkai Nuclear Power Plant

[For international release: February 28, 2007] [Word version: 76KB] Today the prime ministers of Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo. According to media reports, part of the negotiations will focus on a new nuclear agreement allowing Japanese nuclear material to be sent to Russia. It is planned that uranium extracted from spent nuclear fuel reprocessed in the UK and France will be enriched in Russia for use as nuclear fuel for Japanese nuclear power plants. Earlier this month, the Yomiuri Shimbun (1) and various Russian media (2)(3) reported that “Japan has entered into final negotiations that would see Russia enriching Japan’s uranium. It is clear that the Russian uranium…

March 7, 2014. Audio recording (mp3) of NIRS’ Fukushima telebriefing March 6, 2014 featuring Aileen Mioko-Smith of Green Action in Japan, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds and Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Approx. 100 minutes. http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/fukushimatelebriefing3614.mp3

Lawsuits / Webinars / Submissions / Symposiums / Booklets / Leaflets / Protest Statements The January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake proved yet again that Japan must rid itself of nuclear power reactors In 2003, Noto Peninsula citizens won a hard-fought 28-year battle to stop a nuclear power plant complex from being built in Suzu town, located on the tip of Noto Peninsula. On January 1,2024, Suzu suffered a devastating earthquake. The land around the proposed site elevated 2 meters. Over the years, Green Action was part of the movement to stop the siting of this plant. On February 19th, Green Action organized this press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’…

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) Subverts Own Post-Fukushima Safety Rules Allows Ohi Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 & 4 ‘s Continued Operation For immediate release: 3 July 2013 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith (Tel: +81-90-3620-9251) Kyoto, Japan—-The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) today approved continued operation of Kansai Electric’s Ohi Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4 located in Fukui Prefecture even though it is the first to admit the two plants do not meet new post-Fukushima regulatory standards. The standards will take effect Monday, 8 July. “The NRA has taken the lead in ignoring compliance with its new nuclear regulatory rules which have been created to apply the lessons learned from…

Green Action and Mihama-no-Kai Petition Government and Kansai Electric to Investigate Return Shipment MOX Transport Cask for Possible Corrosion For immediate release: 14 June 2002 For more information contact: Aileen Mioko Smith or Stephen Ready Mobile: 090-3620-9251 Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan—- Two Japanese citizen organizations, Green Action and Mihama-no-Kai, who were instrumental in December 1999 in successfully identifying the falsification of safety data for fuel fabricated at BNFL for Japan’s plutonium (MOX) program, joined local citizen groups in Takahama today to protest the arrival of the British-flagged vessel the Pacific Pintail into the port of Takahama. The ship arrived to drop off the transport cask that is scheduled to carry…